palpita
[palˈpit̪a]
The verdict
“palpita” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,453 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,453
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de palpitar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-palpita · palpita · Spanish
palpita · rank #50,453 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,453
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH parafina
Nearest frequency peer: parafina (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “palpita”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- padezco
padezco
49,552 corpus weight
- paladines
paladines
49,550 corpus weight
- palpita
palpita
49,548 corpus weight
- parafina
parafina
49,547 corpus weight
- parish
parish
49,545 corpus weight
- pasabas
pasabas
49,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “palpita” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palpita |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [palˈpit̪a] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “palpita” en español
Rare enough to double-check
palpita is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,453 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [palˈpit̪a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for palpita, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is palpita, spelled P-A-L-P-I-T-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de palpitar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de palpitar.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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